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From a considered point of view not. Maybe not all dislike regarding LGTG people or ideas is (coming from) irrational hate. Same with the dislike of a religion like Islam. Seems not like a completely different thing if it would be coming from an irrational hate or fear... right?

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If you just hate Islam because it's different and you don't understand it, that would be bad. It's coming purely from an emotional reaction.

If you dislike Islam because you disagree from an informed viewpoint with it's beliefs and practices, that's a different thing.

I can't see any real reason to have a thing against people of different sexual orientation though, other than fear or old fashioned bigotry (which is probably an outcome of fear among other factors) It's not as if they want to impose their own predilections on everyone. Just to be treated equally and fairly.

Can you think of any rational reason to dislike LGTG people? Maybe there's something I haven't thought of here.

 

Not from the top of my head. Probably rational dislike would be more about certain actions or ideas that LGTG people have or are associated with them and not about any kind of LGTG people (if that's what they're called) or the idea of them existing on itself. Maybe if parents project it onto their kids? That sort of thing.

 

People think they'll corrupt the young. My old mother is like that. She doesn't think Elton John should be allowed to adopt kids - this is a woman of over 80 with very entrenched attitudes - not saying many people would think that way nowadays.

I expect research has been done to look at how many children brought up by gays have turned out gay themselves -( tried to search for info on that but couldn't find anything clear) but I suspect it has little effect on the sexual preferences of the children.

It is a mistake I think to bring up children without including information about different forms of sexuality in their education, because in the adult world they're going to have to deal with all of that. My own childhood in what was still basically an anti gay culture meant that all we knew about such things came from dodgy sources - other kids and so on. It would have been bad to be anything but straight during my school days. Anyone suspected of being otherwise was usually the subject of taunts, bullying and so on. I myself would participate in all that - because of the faulty values they were seeking to instil. And because of ignorance coupled with the group mindset.

So perhaps the example in the vid seems a little extreme, but so was the old order as I experienced it back in the 60's.

 

The video seemed fairly sensationalized but I was repulsed by that sexual orientation self-evaluation given to 7th graders. If this stuff is as rampant, forced and extreme as the video portrays, psychiatry looks like to have a promising future in Europe in 10-15 years. :Rofl: